Wait with buying the expansion. Right now, you got a huge, populated world and lots of story to play. A tip: When you finish the main story at level 80, buy the Living Story Chapter 2 in the ingame store. It's like a mini expansion, but it contains a pretty large part of the story that happens between vanilla and expansion. Also here is a link sale history of the expansions and complete collection. This may help in predicting when the next one will be. When there is no ongoing sale, the best deal is the Collection Ultimate; when HoT/PoF is on sale, the best deal is to buy HoT/PoF + EoD Ultimate. So $30 now, $59.99 later. Rather than wait till later and just do $59.99. They should do a rule, if you have PoF and you buy a new expansion, you get all LS from PoF time.Rewards players who bought, GW2 $59.99, HoT $59.99, PoF $59.99 New expansion $59.99. A LOT of players waited for today to upgrade. Then this. It's not like gamers have no choice in new games and other game's expansions to take our attention right now. Anet is going to lose a lot of the money and good will if they don't resolve this quickly. They at least need to be 1. updating us, 2. giving us an alternate method to buy the DLC. The expansions are the only content that you have to buy with real money, everything else can be had using in-game gold if you own a non-free copy of the game. If you're poor you can find a good guild and they will usually help you cover the costs. Basically the game is split between boxed and DLC content to allow for frequent updates. Yes, you can buy the living world on your gw2 steam account in-game using gems that you buy with your steam wallet later if you don't want it up front. But it will be $12 more expensive ($52 total instead of $40), unless it's on sale. Also, you can't buy the rest of the bundle on steam itself after your first purchase (the price doesn't adjust Gw2 works a bit different than other mmos, you don't get old expansions with the newest and you don't need old expansions to buy the newest, but if you only buy the newest you are missing tons of content, in gw2 even content from 2015 that came with the first expansion is still populated and relevant. Or buying later expansions means you have no clue regharding what happens wiht the story. also since the Living World seasons 2-5 are inbetween the base game and the first 3 expansions, and their content is very comparable to expansion content (maybe except for season 2, which sadly doesn't offer new maps since its new maps are already part of 10.1k. Posted September 13, 2017. You are allowed to buy an expansion for anyone you might like. What you're not allowed to do is to make any transaction that exchanges, in any way, ingame goods and/or services with real world money. So, you can buy the expac for your friend. Your friend can send gold to you. Guild Wars 2 > General Discussions > Topic Details. Grummpee Sep 17, 2022 @ 12:41am. Which expansion do I buy first? I plan to buy them all, but im on a budget right now and im limiting myself one xpac per pay period. That being said, im a pvp player through and through. The majority of my level is done through pvp. I dont touch pve a lot, hardly. ORXms0Z.